The indictment characterized the cyberattacks and social mediafraud as part of a larger effort by Russia to undermine the United States. A senior administration official called the effort ... He added, "The allegations being mounted against us are simply fantasies." Mr. Kislyak, who has been caught up in theÃÂ ...

A federal court ruled on the side of both the environment and consumers yesterday when it declared delays to four energy efficiency standards illegal. NRDC--alongside other public interest groups, 11 states, and the city of New York--sued the U.S. Department of Energy after it had inexplicably delayedÃÂ ...

companies with operations outside of the United States were more circumspect. Aluminum companies including Alcoa, Rio Tinto Aluminum and Constellium issued statements urging the administration to exempt Canada, a major supplier of aluminum, from the rule, and focus on the issue of ChineseÃÂ ...

A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered the Trump Administration to implement energy-use limits for portable air conditioners and other products ... The U.S. Department of Energy was required to put the energy efficiency standards into effect after a 45-day period to identify any errors and did not haveÃÂ ...

On Wednesday, a bipartisan group of 16 senators introduced a plan to fund President Donald Trump's border wall in exchange for providing a path to citizenship for Dreamers--young undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children. In a vitriolic statement released just before 1 a.m. onÃÂ ...

Now, though, with Mr. Moon determined to engage with the North, these officials said the administration has decided on a course correction. The decision was a victory for South Korea. "The United States, too, looks positively at South-North Korean dialogue and has expressed its willingness to startÃÂ ...

The brief, polite spectacle between the Koreas masks an intensifying debate in Washington: What should America do as North Korea comes closer to being able to hit the U.S. with a nuclear warhead? The Trump Administration's stated policy remains the same--that North Korea must stand down and getÃÂ ...

A year into the Trump Administration, the White House website still has no Spanish-language content, unlike during the two previoUS administrations and ... As Latinos became the largest minority in the U.S., President George W. Bush's administration added Spanish-language content to the White HouseÃÂ ...

The administration's focus on the US trade deficit, which Trump has called "disastrous," continues to perplex outsiders. ... "The United States will no longer turn a blind eye to unfair economic practices, including massive intellectual property theft, industrial subsidies, and pervasive state-led economicÃÂ ...

Once again, an image of a woman screams out to us of unspoken realities in the Trump Administration. This time, the message radiates from a close-up photograph of Colbie Holderness, the first of Rob Porter's two abused ex-wives. This single, troubling photograph confronts us with the underside of thisÃÂ ...

The rules would not apply to permanent residents applying for citizenship, but would apply to a wide range of people living or working in the United States, including close family members of U.S. citizens and workers employed by U.S. companies. In addition, nearly 620,000 other immigrants living abroadÃÂ ...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- The Trump Administration's plan to drill for oil and gas off the coast of the United States drew protests Tuesday in Congress and on the streets. In Oregon, more than 100 protesters gathered outside the state capitol in Salem and planned to go to a hotel where the federal Bureau ofÃÂ ...

A U.S. operation may not achieve its objectives, and even if it does, it would still leave the decision of whether or not to retaliate up to Kim. The North Korean ... The case against the United States initiating force against any country, especially a nuclear-armed North Korea, is strong. Indeed, Korea expertÃÂ ...

analysts expect the Trump Administration to target Venezuelan imports of US diluents first, before considering sanctions on US imports. US imports of Venezuelan crude averaged 505,000 b/d in November, down from 812,000 in April and its lowest point since January 2003 amid Venezuela's oil strike.

The Trump Administration is attempting to sabotage blue states like Massachusetts by putting them at a disadvantage during the 2020 United States ... Galvin, who has led the state's efforts around the U.S. Census since the 2000 count, said the two greatest challenges to getting an accurate count of theÃÂ ...

"The Title X program is important to this administration," Valerie Huber, the HHS official currently in charge of the program, said in an email to clinics. "We are committed to the women and men who depend on Title X services and efforts are already underway to ensure that there will be no gaps in serviceÃÂ ...

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Tuesday led a multi-state lawsuit against the Trump Administration in federal court for delaying the Obama-era Waters of the United States rule. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleged the EPA violated theÃÂ ...

Only those who have been in the United States since Aug. 1, 2016, are eligible for that extension, disqualifying newer arrivals. Still, Neilsen said those who came to the U.S. more recently "may be eligible to seek other forms of immigration relief." Syria remains entangled in a bloody civil war with no signs ofÃÂ ...

(WASHINGTON) -- The top career U.S. diplomat announced Thursday he will step down, dealing a blow to the State Department as the Trump Administration confronts numerous international challenges. The State Department's third-ranking official, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Tom Shannon,ÃÂ ...

In devastating news from the U.S., it is reported that the White House under President Trump is seeking to cut the budget of the energy efficiency and renewable energy programs under the U.S. Department of Energy by 72%. This is reported by the Washington Post, that has obtained draft budgetÃÂ ...

The Trump Administration allowed the head of Russia's foreign intelligence service, Sergey Naryshkin, to visit the United State last week, despite US sanctions that are supposed to bar Naryshkin from entering the country. "Which other sanctioned Russia intelligence agency figures has the TrumpÃÂ ...

Unfortunately, all the coverage has done little to slow the campaign at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of the ... To scrap major environmental regulations put in place by prior administrations or enact new rules, the EPA is required to perform cost-benefit analyses.

Last summer, Pushkov called Trump a "hostage of Congress and anti-Russian hysteria," when the U.S. president signed a sanctions bill against Russia over election hacking. "I believe we have to get used to the fact there will be no positive signals from the United States in the foreseeable future," theÃÂ ...

Townsend characterized the threat of lone wolf attacks in the United States as "immediate" but said that the U.S. also needs to watch for other ... to the U.S. The former deputy director and acting director of the CIA praised the administration for ratcheting up the fight against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, which heÃÂ ...

"This announcement could lead to responses from the most affected countries, including retaliatory tariffs on U.S. exports or petitions filed with the World Trade Organization against the U.S.". The administration has hinted strongly that the tariffs on washing machines and solar panels are only the beginningÃÂ ...

Some experts have predicted in recent days that President Donald Trump might even seek to draw attention to the need to accelerate 5G efforts in his State of the Union address. Industry officials have been invited to the White House Monday for a round-table discussion of infrastructure efforts that couldÃÂ ...

In years past, U.S. officials have often complained about other countries, especially China, for manipulating exchange rates to gain an economic advantage. After Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took power in 2012 and talked down the yen in a bid to help Japan's export firms, many viewed the jawboning asÃÂ ...

U.S. trade groups have launched a coalition in order to combat recent dips in tourism through partnering with the Trump Administration. ... If the United States had maintained its 2015 market share of global travel, the economy would have gained 7.4 million additional international visitors, $32.2 billion inÃÂ ...

U.S. Secretary of education Betsy DeVos criticized the Bush and Obama administrations for having too heavy-handed of an approach to education policy. ... law to the billions of dollars in competitive education grants that the Obama administration relied on to persuade states to adopt its policy preferences.

(CNN) On Tuesday evening Erin Burnett began her prime time program with a simple question: "How stupid do you think we are?" Pointed, politically charged and presumably directed at Washington, the anchor's inquiry stemmed from a slew of recent controversial remarks made by President DonaldÃÂ ...

There are a lot more undocumented immigrants in the United States than our government can possibly deport (without increasing the size and scope of immigration enforcement beyond even the Trump Administration's wildest dreams). At present, U.S. immigration courts are so severely backlogged,ÃÂ ...

The Trump Administration on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018, appealed a judge's ruling temporarily blocking its decision to end protections for hundreds of thousands of young immigrants and announced plans to seek U.S. Supreme Court review even before the appeals court issues a decision. Sessions said in aÃÂ ...

The new report shows that of the 549 international terrorism defendants the Trump Administration includes in its new list, 254 were not U.S. citizens, 148 were born outside the country ... Of the 580 defendants on that list, 375 were born outside the United States, according to the research of Sessions's staff.

The administration ended renewals for two-year permits in October. An estimated 144 people daily lose their deportation relief. Tuesday's order from U.S. District Judge William Alsup directed the administration to resume accepting renewal applications until all claims raised by the State of California andÃÂ ...

COLUMBIA -- As the first anniversary of President Donald Trump's inauguration approaches, his administration still has not nominated a U.S. attorney for South Carolina, leaving the Federal PRosecutor's office in limbo as it continues to wait for a permanent leader. Beth Drake, who has been an assistantÃÂ ...

But he is giving the other countries in the deal a warning. Make the deal tougher, or the U.S. will stop keeping its end of the bargain with sanctions relief. Meanwhile, the Trump Administration is imposing new targeted sanctions on Iran that aren't part of this deal. NPR's Michele Kelemen is with us now to talkÃÂ ...

WASHINGTON -- The Trump Administration is seeking new authority to acquire land near the Southern border with Mexico as part of its plan to quickly build immigration barriers, angering activists who said it would violate liberties and endanger the environment as a cost of fulfilling the president'sÃÂ ...